creators

Eugene Yan — applied ML, recsys and LLMs

Eugene Yan is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic and writes at eugeneyan.com on recommendation systems, LLMs in production and applied ML engineering.

Eugene Yan is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, building recommendation systems and AI-powered products that serve customers at scale. Born in Singapore, he studied psychology at Singapore Management University before moving into data science. From 2020 to 2025 he was a Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon, building retrieval, ranking and recommendation systems for search; earlier he led machine learning at Alibaba/Lazada, was ML lead at a Series A healthtech company, and started at IBM. He writes at eugeneyan.com on recommendation systems, LLMs and applied ML engineering, and sends a newsletter to more than 11,800 readers. He co-wrote the Applied-LLMs.org field report on a year of building with LLMs, and runs ApplyingML.com. He is based in Seattle.

Specialization

applied machine learning, recommendation systems, LLMs in production, search and retrieval

Country

United States